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FOREST AND STREAM 
In order to supply the popular demand for a small 
Charcoal Cake we are now ready to place on the market 
SPRATT’S Midget Charcoal Biscuits 
This cake is the same size as our Midget Biscuits and is invaluable 
for dyspeptic dogs or those suffering from indigestion. 
Please remember, that although dark in color, the charcoal in them 
is absolutely tasteless and the biscuit appeals to the dog’s palate as 
much as the ordinary Meat Fibrine Cake. 
Write for sample and send 2c. stamp for “Dog Culture’’ containing 
valuable information regarding kennel management, rearing, etc. 
SPRATT’S PATENT LIMITED 
Factory and Chief Offices at NEWARK, N. J. 
FOR SALE! 
Newfoundland Pure Bred Dog Pups 
ROSEMONT RANCHING CO. 
E. J. BERRIGAN, Manager 
ST. JOHNS, NEWFOUNDLAND 
WANTED— Pointers andSetters to train; game plenty. Also 
two broken dogs for sale. 
H. H. SMITH, 0. K. Kennels, Marydel, Md. 
THE BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS 
of BERRY, KENTUCKY 
OFFER FOR SALE —Setters and Pointers, Fox and 
Cat Hounds, Wolf and Deer Hounds, Coon and 
O’possum Hounds, Varmint and Rabbit Hounds, Bear 
and Lion Hounds, also Airedale Terriers. All dogs 
shipped on trial, purchaser alone to judge the quality. 
Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. 56-page 
highly illustrated, interesting and instructive catalogue 
for ten cents in stamps or coin. 
FREE INFORMATION ON 
HOW TO DO TANNING 
From the worthless looking green 
hides to the finest, soft tanned 
furred leather, moth proof at factory 
prices, made up into beautiful furs, 
coats, robes, mittens and caps. Send 
in your own catch. Taxidermist work, 
W. WEAVER, Custom Tanner, READING, MICH. 
OORANG AIREDALE PUPS for sale. Vigorous young¬ 
sters bred from true sporting stock that are unequaled 
ai water dogs, retrievers and hunters of all kinds of 
game. They make trailers, tree barkers and stayers; 
will climb a tree or go to earth and fight anything from 
a ground hog to a grizzly bear. They are raised in the 
open and are the hardy, active and game kind with the 
hunting instinct bred in the bone. Having an iron con¬ 
stitution they withstand the hardest usage and make the 
ideal dog for both hunter and trapper. Stamp for reply. 
Oorang Kennels, La Rue, Ohio. 
IMPORTED NORWEGIAN 
BEARHOUNDS, Irish Wolf¬ 
hounds, English Blood¬ 
hounds, American Fox¬ 
hounds, Deer, Wolf and 
Cat Hounds. Illustrated 
catalogue for 5c. stamp. 
ROOKWOOD KENNELS, 
Lexington, Ky. 
Book on Dog Diseases 
AND HOW TO FEED. 
Mailed FREE to any address by the author. 
H. CLAY GLOVER, D.V.S. 
118 W. 3 1 st Street New York 
HIGH CLASS SHOOTING DOGS' 
For Sale—Fifteen Pointers and Setters, guar¬ 
anteed thoroughly broken on Grouse and Wood¬ 
cock, by a professional handler. These dogs 
are all bred from the most fashionable strains 
of both bench show and field trial winners, and 
are all bench show winners themselves. 
Will be sold cheap to immediate buyers. For 
further particulars, address, 
1 HE MIDKIFF KENNELS, DALLAS, PA. 
DOGS FOR SALE. 
Do you want to buy a dog or pup ol any kind ? If so 
send for list and prices of all varieties. Always on hand 
OXFORD KENNELS, 
35 North Ninth St., Philadelphia. Pa. 
KENWYN KOAT KURE 
Cure* mange or eczema, and kills flees. $0.50 and $1.00 
sizes sent to any address by parcels post. 
KENWYN KURE KOMPANY, 
Point Pleasant, New Jersey. 
Don’t Wear a Truss! 
Brooks’ Appliance, the modern 
scientific invention, the wonder¬ 
ful new discovery that cures 
rupture, will be sent on trial. 
No obnoxious springs or pads. 
Has Automatic Air Cushions. 
Binds and draws the broken 
parts together as you would 
a broken limb. No salves. No 
plasters. No lies. Durable,cheap, 
c. e. brooks, the DiscoTerer Sent on trial to prove it 
Catalogue and measure blanks mailed free. 
Send name and address today. 
C. E. BROOKS, 1949 State St., Marshall, Mich. 
SOUTHERN HUNTING GROUND 
I want 'boarders, preferably sportsmen, this winter. 
25,000 acres of fine hunting 'land, with well stocked 
covers. Lange, 'comfortable house, all modern improve¬ 
ments. 40 miles from Charleston, S. C., on A. C. L. R. 
R. Ghildren and consumptives not taken. For further 
particulars write P. R. Porcher, Bonneau, Berkeley 
Co., S. C. 
dustries in Salem county during the winter. 
Trappers and native hunters in the county found 
revisions in the game laws distasteful last year, 
and they took out their resentment against the 
administration upon Senator Smick. Senator 
Allen is a farmer, and is pledged to seek im¬ 
portant changes in the trapping and hunting laws. 
CELLULOSE USED FOR MANY PURPOSES. 
It is doubtful if any material used by man 
adapts itself in more protean 'forms to the de¬ 
mands of civilization than the compound of cel¬ 
lulose and nitric acid discovered by Schonbein in 
1845 and variously known as nitrocellulose, ex¬ 
plosive cotton, gun cotton and soluble cotton. 
Made by treating well purified cellulose, 
usually in the form of cotton, with a mixture of 
nitric and sulphuric acids, it varies materially 
in its properties according to the amount 
of nitrogen brought into the combination. The 
higher nitrates are extremely powerful ex¬ 
plosives and constitute the basis of the many 
varieties of smokeless powder. Compressed gun 
cotton is the usual explosive charge of the tor¬ 
pedoes used in naval warfare. Combined with 
nitroglycerine it forms the British military ex¬ 
plosive, cordite, and the Italian ballistite. The 
earliest French smokeless powder was a mix¬ 
ture of guncotton and picric acid. In all of 
these as in our own army and navy powders the 
nitrocellulose is converted by gelatinizing pro¬ 
cesses to a condition resembling horn. In sport¬ 
ing powders the degree of nitration is commonly 
lower and the finished product granular and less 
dense in the grain. 
The multifarious usefulness of nitrocellulose, 
is, however, most apparent in the arts of peace. 
The lower nitrates made plastic under heat by 
the -addition of camphor after the method in¬ 
vented by Hyatt in 1869 appears in every home 
as articles of celluloid. In the form of sheets 
and films it covers campaign buttons, shields us 
from the wind in automobiles, constitutes the 
'base of photographic films and carries the mov- 
ing pictures in ten thousand theatres. Dissolved 
in various solvents, of which amyl acetate is 
most generally used, it finds new fields of use¬ 
fulness as lacquers for brass bedsteads, instru¬ 
ments, and highly finished metal articles gen¬ 
erally, and forms the vehicle for the aluminum 
paint so widely used on exposed piping. 
The dope prepared by blending nitrocellulose 
with castor oil finds a wide application in the 
manufacture of dress shields, waterproof sheets, 
artificial leather, and Pegamoid, and forms the 
basic coating of the best grades of patent 
leather._ 
PARTI-COLORED QUAIL. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
^ The following picture of the white partridge 
I secured this fall while hunting in Brookfield, 
with W. A. Gregory of Danbury, has created a 
lot of comment among the hunters of this vicinity 
on account of its plumage. It might be that 
others have been killed but the oldest hunters 
who have seen it, say they never saw or heard of 
one as white as this one. It was all accidental 
in getting the freak as Mr. Gregory and I were 
chasing a partridge and ran across another 
hunter by the name of Geo. Corbin of Brookfield, 
and he showed us the freak and I told him I 
would have it mounted if he did not want it. 
The breast was entirely white with the head, 
tail and wings a natural color. E. H. BAILEY. 
